The Left's Jewish Problem Quotes

“Loach told the Workers Revolutionary Party’s newspaper, and ‘What is amazing is the strength and organisation and power of their lobby.’ The ‘Zionists’, he claimed, ‘want to leave intact … the generalised sense of guilt that everyone has about the Jews so that it remains an area that you can’t discuss’.”
― Dave Rich, The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism

“When Palestinian gunmen shot dead twenty-two worshippers at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul in 1986, its newsletter insisted that while the LMCP didn’t condone the attack, ‘it is Zionism that gains … So whatever Israel may feel about the massacre of the Turkish Jews, the truth is that the Zionist State actually benefits from such attacks.’ By this stage Livingstone had joined Corbyn as a LMCP sponsor, alongside around a dozen MPs and MEPs and a clutch of Constituency Labour Parties and student Labour Clubs.”
― Dave Rich, The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism